The girl with the burns has gone home!! It's good in a way, but she left without telling the doctors so I hope she's doing ok. A man came in to the outpatients department and we checked him out...it didn't look good. His small intestine had managed to fall right into his scrotum so it was the size of a balloon! Ouch. I watched the op later that day and he's doing fine now.
On tuesday I got to see a Varicoceletomy because a man had a varicose testicular vein. The doctor whipped out his vas deferens and clamped them to the side out of the way so that he wouldn't damage them but it still seemed pretty rough, I hope he's not infertile now! Straight after I then saw a Cholecystectomy, where a woman's gall bladder was removed by laproscopy. It looks sooo skilful, it was amazing.
After surgery, we'd gone up to our flat and were getting our meal ready when Dr. Rajulan came sprinting up the stairs panting saying that there was a delivery in a hospital near by, so Flora, Staph and I ran down the road and got there just on time. It was SO amazing. A lil baby boy, he was so so cute! Before they even let his mum hold him, they whisked him away, bathed him in water, then in soapy water, then scrubbed him with soap, then drenched him in coconut oil (of course, what don't they cover in the stuff in India!), then immersed him in talcum powder, then drew Hindu dots all over his face, hands and feet, and finally put this little blue dress on! What an ordeal for his first half an hour!!!!!
I arrived in Tirvandrum last night with 4 other volunteers as we are doing a course in Ayurvedic Medicine until Friday. The teacher was really nice and we've covered quite a bit already. Apparently they use mercury to treat some of their patients with diabetes...isn't that illegal?!?!
When we finished this afternoon, Emily and I rickshawed it up to the Zoological Gardens on the other side of the city and saw looooads of different types of animals...himalayan bears, tigers, leopards, deer, hippopotamuses (one which was rolling over in the water!!), rhinos etc etc...its was slightly cooler in the shady walks through the gardens too which was a relief - its been such a sticky day!
Off to dinner now, TPA have opened an account at a restaurant so we can order unlimited food and then we just sign the bill and they pay for it after...we're gradually trying everything on the menu!
Me alegro que podais comer al fin lo que querais. Muchos muchos besosxxxxxxxxx